Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1133 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1133, located approximately 2,456.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.97 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.54 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 11.556 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0983 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 703 K (430 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,456.39 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.393
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 43,318,523 years

Kepler-1133 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.97 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.176 R♃
Mass
4.54 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.26 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.393
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#38of 1176

top 3.1%

This planet

1.97R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1133 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.54317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.261.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0055.760.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 275569784

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077831239952281472

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077831239952281472

System

Kepler-1133

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.970 R⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.540 M⊕ · percentile 88 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 11.56 d · percentile 69 / cohort 1164
Distance 753.14 pc · percentile 64 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.393 · percentile 59 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
11.556 days
Semi-major axis
0.0983 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.21 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 11.56 Earth days (3.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0983 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.044 %

Duration

1.654 h

Impact parameter b

0.275

Rp / R★

0.019525

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.1960

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 442 ppm lasting ≈ 1.65 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019525

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

28.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.275

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.1960

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.13100

Eq. Temperature

703K

(430 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

55.76

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.393

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1133

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,569 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.07 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.900 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.930 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.500 dex

Stellar density

20.392 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
753.14 parsec
Light-years 2,456.39 ly
V-band magnitude
14.79 mag
Voyager-speed travel 43,318,523 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.115.715.66B14.79V14.81Gaia14.82Kepler14.28TESS15.37Sloan g14.77Sloan r14.58Sloan i14.47Sloan z13.60J13.17H13.17K13.06W113.10W212.36W39.11W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.300 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.743 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.54 mas/yr

PM Declination

5.72 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.290 · y = -0.673 · z = 0.680

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 293.32241° · Dec 42.86749°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.678° · 11.055°

Ecliptic λ, β

309.908° · 63.112°

HTM-20 index

-91654185

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